Ford.ca
- Ford Motor Company of Canada
Ford Motor Company of
Canada (FORD.CA), Limited is the manufacturing and sales
arm of Ford Motor Company for Canada. It was founded in 1904 in
Walkerville, Ontario by Gordon McGregor as President and Henry Ford as
Vice-President.
Ford took over the
Presidency in 1906 and continued in this role until succeeded by
his son Edsel Ford in 1927. Current Ford HQ is in Oakville,
Ontario.
Historically Ford was one of most powerful companies in Canada,
and in the 1970s, Ford was the "largest" company in Canada. Ford
of Canada celebrated its Centennial in 2004, shortly after the
Parent Company Ford in the United States did in 2003.
Current CEO and President of Ford Motor Company of Canada is
William H. Osborne.
The firm both sells automobiles in Canada, and manufactures
automobiles, for sale in Canada and other countries.
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Ford Motor Company is an American
multinational corporation and the world's third largest automaker
based on worldwide vehicle sales. Based in Dearborn, Michigan, a
suburb of Detroit, the automaker was founded by Henry Ford and
incorporated on June 16, 1903.
Ford's overseas business encompasses only one truly global brand
(Volvo of Sweden) other than the Ford brand itself, but it also
owns a one-third controlling interest in Mazda of Japan and a
small holding in former subsidiary Aston Martin of England. Its
former UK subsidiaries Jaguar and Land Rover were sold to Tata
Motors of India in March 2008, both companies having been through
many changes of ownership in the recent past.
Lincoln and Mercury
are also Ford's aspirational brands in the USA, but not in the
rest of the world. Ford also sold the brand names of Daimler
(excluding certain rights sold to Germany's Daimler AG),
Lanchester, and Rover to Tata Motors of India.
In 2007, Ford became the third-ranked automaker in US sales after
General Motors and Toyota, falling from the second-ranked
automaker slot for the first time in the previous 56 years. Ford
was also the overall seventh-ranked American-based company in the
2007 Fortune 500 list, based on global revenues in 2006 of $160.1
billion.
In 2007, Ford revenues
increased to $173.9 billion, while producing 6.553 million
automobiles and employing about 245,000 employees at around
100 plants and facilities worldwide. Also in 2007, Ford
received more initial quality survey awards from J. D. Power
and Associates than any other automaker, with five vehicles
ranking at the top of their categories, and fourteen vehicles
ranked in the top three.
Ford introduced methods
for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management
of an industrial workforce, using elaborately engineered
manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines. Henry
Ford's methods came to be known around the world as Fordism by
1914.
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